Maria PopovaIn the autumn of 1883, a paper in the nation's capital reported that "an Iowa woman has spent 7 years embroidering the solar system on a quilt" — to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college. Her story: https://t.co/flA3OGGZQZ #WomensHistoryMonth
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neongodMy son liked to post his pixelart on Pixel Studio's Pixel Network and apparently the dev just changed the terms and conditions so that the art you publish can become part of a training dataset for a new AI pixel-art generation app. You can’t even opt-out if you’re using the mobile app. They also started allowing AI art to be posted.
My son is so demotivated by this.
That's how you kill creativity. And I really hope your business too.
George Czernuszka“Two Labour wins, a Reform party surge and a dip into Rishession: never doubt Sunak’s strategy is going to plan.”
The always excellent Marina Hyde.
kim_harding ✅Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/30/britons-brexit-bad-uk-poll-eu-finances-nhs
Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge according to new poll
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/30/britons-brexit-bad-uk-poll-eu-finances-nhs
Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge according to new poll
Emeritus Prof Christopher MaySo, now its the 'wealthy boomers' who are going to help out the #Tories, thinks Phillip Inman.
Well, I'm one 'comfortable' retired #boomer, who has never voted for those #Toryscum & never will....
The reading off of the advantages flowing to baby boomers (still) & their likely voting patterns feels like rather lazy materialism.
Lets stop blaming the boomers & say what's really the problem: the mendacious, corrosive right wing media's grip on political debate(s)!
Bread and CircusesGreta Thunberg says:
"As much as I hate to admit it, Beyoncé was wrong. It is *not* girls who run the world. It is run by politicians, corporations, and financial interests — mainly represented by white, privileged, middle-aged, straight cis-men. And it turns out most of these are terribly ill-suited for the job. This may not come as a big surprise. After all, the purpose of a company is not to save the world — it is to make a profit, as much profit as it possibly can in order to keep shareholders and market interests happy."
That's from page 200 of “The Climate Book” -- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709837/the-climate-book-by-greta-thunberg/
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
MichaelMapped: The record number of polluted spots swimmers are urged to avoid ahead of Christmas swims https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bathing-beaches-water-quality-safe-b2467798.html
Zach WeinersmithBonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/future-3
Félix Tréguer"Generating one image takes as much energy as fully charging your smartphone, according to the study from researchers at the AI startup Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University." https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1084417/ais-carbon-footprint-is-bigger-than-you-think/ #CritiqueIA
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